Viral protein disables a cellular alarm.

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  • Author(s): Travis, J.
  • Source:
    Science News. 10/26/96, Vol. 150 Issue 17, p261. 3/5p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      MOLECULAR immune response; VIRUS diseases; PROTEINS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY
    • Abstract:
      Features a report which describes how the protein pp65, employed by a virus called cytomegalovirus (CMV), disables the human body's cellular alarm system. How the alarm system is supposed to alert the body to viral infections; What the protein does to impede the alarm system; How pp65 modifies the immediate early protein (IE); Report of Mark J. Gilbert and associates in the October 24, 1996 `Nature.'